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<div>Many runways down south are paved and are indeed less than 30 meters wide. Many are about half that width. The wicket is very sticky here because the FAI and AMA regs differ.</div>
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<div>On the other hand, many runways here in the north are wide grass areas which are often wider than 30 meters. So these landing zones will be as long as shown in the FAI regs. Based on what we show on the NSRCA website, the AMA and FAI regs appear the same for the wider runways.</div>
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<div>Clear as mudd. The CD may always override and present a unified rule for both types of events</div>
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<div>MattK</div>
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<div><FONT face=Arial size=2>It's a miracle that I'm not more confused than I am what with the many disparities between the AMA protocols and the FAI stuff. Just when you think you are sure of a specific rule, you discover that someone is raising a question based on a different genre. At Joe Walker's reference I decided to see if I could find the landing zone specs and realizing the original question came from Jay I dug out my FAI stuff. Took me a few hours, but it's in there and the jist of it is..........." if you're flying on a runway that's less than 30 meters wide, the landing zone will be determined by a circle of 30 meters diameter. If the runway is greater than 30 meters wide, then the landing zone will be determined by two lines 100 meters apart." I am assuming that this should imply 50 meters either side of center. That's 164 feet on each side of center guys. I've always heard it rumored that "pattern flyers can't land". Could this be International confirmation of the rumor?</FONT></div>
<div><FONT face=Arial size=2>It appears, to me, that the International stringency requirements suddenly become extremely lenient in this area or am I missing something?</FONT></div>
<div><FONT face=Arial size=2>Georgie</FONT></div>
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